If you melt and cool silicon dioxide under very special conditions
<span>in the laboratory we can grow a single </span>crystalline<span> form of </span>
<span>silicon dioxide that we call quartz. In quartz crystals all of </span>
<span>the molecules are aligned and bonded together in a regular three </span>
<span>dimensional tetrahedral structure forming a very hard, transparent </span>
<span>material with special electronic properties. </span>
1. Common knowledge : Go to the right of periodic table, the atomic radius is decreasing
2. Flurine has 9 protons and lithium has 3 protons. you know that the electron is attracted with the centre of the atom, that's why more proton, more 'energy' that attract to the centre and that's why it make the shape of the atom is smaller
